Dynamic 20-year career with broad experience in clinical drug development (preclinical through phase IV) in multiple therapeutic areas. A leader with vision; achieving results in challenging global development programs, including experience with successful registration in the US, Europe, Japan, and other countries. Experience has included development work with first in new classes of compounds and includes adults, elderly, pediatric, and neonatal populations. Anti-infective drug development experience has included over 7 classes of antibiotics, multiple anti-virals, anti-fungals, vaccines, and biologics. Other experience includes vaccine research, clinical pediatrics, infectious disease, public health management, and tuberculosis control. Proven management skills on multifunctional teams, matrix settings, and multi-cultural environments in government, governmental agencies, large corporations, and small entrepreneurial businesses.
Jon earned a B.S. at the University of Utah and an M.S. in Public Health at the Tulane University of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. In 1986 Jon earned his medical degree from the University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, and in 2004 received his MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.